Godwski was good enough to win a national title for Nebraska during the national title runs and so was Steve Taylor, still think Gdowski was a better passer and had a higher IQ than Taylor..
Majority feel that Taylor Martinez wouldn’t have won one..
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Majority feel that Taylor Martinez wouldn’t have won one..
i Find it ironic and sad that fans are clamoring for freaking Taylor Martinez as a great quarterback, oh how the mighty have fallen
He wasn’t all Big just for his legs. He put up some very decent passing numbers. Against Oklahoma his freshman year he wasn’t a shell of his pre injury self and his poor passing his sophomore year was a direct result of that. Kansas State, Washington and Missouri had good Ds his freshman year and he carved them up quite well. He actually threw the ball well against Texas his freshman year after they stacked the D to shut down his legs.
Dude, you will never get TM haters to look at any of his stats in a positive light.
Remember when he smoked top 10 OSU and Mizzo in back to back weekends, the haters don't.
Was he "great", I guess not but he was really good. Did his throwing motion look odd, sure, so did Frost's, Crouch and TF.
Not sure where this idea came that he was "soft" if anything he was too tough for his own good.
I think most of the haters comes from people who hate Bo and then hate TM because of that.
HIs best year: If we were told that Casey Thompson would have those #'s this season, we would take it in a second and enjoy the 10 win season.
| 228 | 368 | 62.0 | 2,871 | 23 | 12 | 141.6 | 195 | 1,019 | 5.2 | 10 |
He actually sucked. It's just that our standards have fallen in the Frost/Amart era. Kind of like the doofuses that bleet, "Amart was on a Heisman watch list!" The goal has always been conference championships and NCs. TM was never going to get us there.
Adrian Martinez had a better overall skill set than Taylor for what Neb wants to do. Just a much shi@&ier team IMO. Once Ziggy, Morgan and other departed after 2018…he was suddenly faced with a number of walk-ons at WR and much less talent at RB. Taylor would have had a better skillset for TO’s teams in the 90s…as he could run like the wind.
No shit...Kade ****ing Warner was a freaking captain. Unreal
Taylor actually won some games for NU, which sets him way apart from Adrian. I do agree on your physical skill set statement.
Two things kept Taylor from being a great QB. The fumbles and the injury.
I'm just praying that we can finally see good, consistent QB play so we can put to bed all this reminiscing about our bipolar QBs named Martinez! Ha
I think that is fair.
I think it is also fair to say that if he is the QB on the 95 team, they win it all and if he was the QB on that team with Suh...they might have gone undefeated.
I think a lot of other QB‘s would have been better than Zach Lee, but we would have not went unbeaten with TM but we would have taken care of texass in the CCG in 2009…
I can't really remember the games they lost that year so you very well could be right.
We lost 9-7 to Iowa St and had a ton of turnovers and Texas Tech beat us soundly 31-10 the week before..
Okay...so with TM they win the ISU game because he would have broke one or two.
That TT they would still lose, I agree. That was just a shit game.
I like our chances pre ankle injury. After that he was a shell of his former self.
Nonsense. We won games in 1994 with Matt Turman as starting QB. If we can win with Turman, we could most certainly win with Taylor Martinez.
Was not as error prone as Adrian.
I could have handed the ball off to LP against KSU in 1994. If I could do it…I think AM would add a flair that I couldn’t even come close to. ; )
Terrible take.. I think that shitty northern Texas heat is getting to you. TMart had us in a couple Conf championship games. Please tell me which qb would of beaten WI? Our defense was so awesome! We should of beaten OK…but it just didn’t happen…
Try paragraphs next time.
Best freshman highlight vid of any Husker in history. And it’s not close.
Turman started one game, played in 33. So to say "we won games" is misleading at best.
But that game was against one of the top 2 teams on our schedule…at their place.
And maybe the Husker D played well. The point was he didn't win multiple games as the starting QB.
The point is…if Turman handing off to LP generated enough points to beat KSU that year…that AM…with a superior skillset also likely would have led Neb to victory against the number 2 team on their regular season schedule in Manhattan. Against the number 1 team…Colorado…The Neb defense also played masterful…holding Kordell Stewart and the Buff offense in check at every turn. So…could AM have led Neb to a NC matchup with Miami that year? Quite plausibly…yes. That’s the point.
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No, it wasn't the point. You are extrapolating to a conclusion that is unproven. I just stated the fact he didn't win lots of games, only one he started against an opponent. That is the point and the facts.
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We gifted Iowa State 8 turnovers and lost 9-7. One less turnover likely would have made the difference between winning and losing.
I don’t know how many Nattys we would of won with other QBs, but I did happen to rewatch the 95 Orange Bowl the other night for the first time in about 15 years.
I’ll say this, I can’t believe how many times the camera showed Frank Costa dragging himself up off the ground. Especially in the 2nd half. It was literally almost every play.
He took a monumental beat down!
Now that I think about it, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a quarterback get beat down like that before or since.
I can only imagine what it was like getting out of bed the next morning for him. So for me, I don’t put too much stock into who our quarterback needed to be.
That man got his ASS WHOOPED!
I’ll say this, I can’t believe how many times the camera showed Frank Costa dragging himself up off the ground. Especially in the 2nd half. It was literally almost every play.
He took a monumental beat down!
Now that I think about it, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a quarterback get beat down like that before or since.
I can only imagine what it was like getting out of bed the next morning for him. So for me, I don’t put too much stock into who our quarterback needed to be.
That man got his ASS WHOOPED!
Frank Costa was a tough guy. Imagine how many national championships we would have won if we had Frank Costa as our QB.
Wuerffel took a beating as well. Those teams were awesome.
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